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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Alexander Okolo" <alexanderokolo@x-mail.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: alexanderokolo@myway.com
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:37:27 +0000
Subject: Re; Confidential Info

Compliments of the Day,
First, I must solicit your STRICT confidence in this Proposition, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly, CONFIDENTIAL. I have decided to contact you after serious considerantion to participate in a business transaction the value of USD18.5M only. My name is Alexander Okolo . I work with one of the leading private and offshore banks in the Isle of Man. The Proposition: On January 6, 1999, an Egyptian oil consultant/contractor, Mr. Youssef Genidy George, made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for 24 calendar months value US$18.5M only in my bank. On maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder but unfortunately we found out that he was amongst the victims of the EgyptAir Flight 990 that occured September 1999, months after he made the deposit. Visit the site
below for more news on the unfortunate tragedy.
http://newsbbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Right now, my bank is at the edge of declaring the funds UNCLAIMABLE
since nobody has come forward to claim the deposited money with my bank. Mr Youssef unfortunately did not leave a beneficiary's name with my bank nor did he leave the name of his next of kin. It is inlight of this that I have decided to contact you to stand in as the beneficiary of the deposited funds by the late MR Youssef. Since I workm in the bank, and in my capacity, I will make you the beneficiary of the said funds. There are two options open to successfully make you the beneficiary of the deposited money. I
have thought about these options very well and found out they are
foolproof. Moreso, I will obtain all related documents and information about the deposit. I will provide you these options and documents upon your reply and make you the benefiary hence we commence claim.
Kindly respond with your
private phone and fax numbers, reply to the below confidential email
address.
I will await your response.
Kind regards,
Alexander Okolo , alexanderokolo1@yahoo.co.uk

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